A series of crisis meetings at the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) these days. APHP management alerts its staff in an email. “These meetings show extremely strong tensions for unscheduled care, both non-Covid and Covid”. This Wednesday France crossed for the first time the threshold of 200,000 contaminations in 24 hours.
“Samu is handling a considerably higher number of calls than usual at the same time of year,” she explains. Critical care patient beds are all occupied. And this, at a time when sick leaves are increasing among hospital caregivers.
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Deprogramming of care
This leads the management of the AP-HP to request a deprogramming of care. For next week, caregivers must limit their activities “to care for which the vital prognosis is at stake.”
Intended to make it possible to take care of a maximum of urgent patients, this measure requires a prioritization of the care which must be done “as always, on medical criteria and collegially. “
An incidence rate never reached before
To fight against the spread of the Omicron variant, the obligation to wear a mask outdoors is once again in place in Paris from this Friday. In the Paris area, the incidence rate “is close to 2,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, a level never reached before”, specifies the Prefecture of Police
in a press release.
According to Public Health France, 3,771 people are currently hospitalized in Ile-de-France, including 771 in intensive care.